I spent part of my weekend watching screeners for films that are included in this upcoming, awesome series, presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center (NYC), titled "Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968–1986" – from the opener, Kathleen Collins’ stately 1982 feature "Losing Ground;" to Ayoka Chenzira’s humorous, though inciting short "black hair" travelogue, "Hair Piece A Film for Nappy-Headed People;" Camille Billop’s devastating documentary on a young black woman’s struggles to come to terms with her physically abusive father (dead at the time of the making of the film) as well as a mother, abused herself,…
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